Charles Lamb Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• I am in love with this green Earth.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Earth, Green

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.38

• Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Moving, Fall

• When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Stars, Fall

• 'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Sweet, Thinking

• Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Flower, Eye

• Oft in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Memories, Heart

• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Hope, Flower

• It is good to love the unknown.

  Charles Lamb

  Love

  Charles Lamb (2008). “The Life, Letters, and Writings of Charles Lamb”, p.243, Cosimo, Inc.

• Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.

  Charles Lamb

  Love, Men, Never Quit

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